On 10/02/2008, Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems we have different ideas about what AGI is. It is not a product that > you can make and sell. It is a service that will evolve from the desire to > automate human labor, currently valued at $66 trillion per year.
Yes. I think the best way to think about the sort of robotics that we can reasonably expect to see in the near future is as physical artifacts which provide a service. Most robotics intelligence will be provided as remotely hosted services, because this means that you can build the physical machine very cheaply with minimal hardware onboard, and also to a large extent make it future-proof. It also enables the kinds of "collective subconscious" which Ben has talked about in the context of Second Life agents. As more computational intelligence comes online a dumb robot just subscribes to the new service (at a cost to the user, of course) and with no hardware changes it's suddenly smarter and able to do more stuff. ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=94603346-a08d2f
